The Power of the Digg Effect
December 17, 2007 – 10:11 pmEveryone talks about how the Digg Effect brings servers to their knees and causes accounts to be disabled. Let’s take a journey around the web and see what this “Digg Effect” is all about. Following are accounts from web site owners about their experiences with the Digg Effect.
SocialNewsWatch.com - A study of the Digg Effect vs. being Stumbled.
ErraticWisdom.com - A visual view (tables and graphs) of the Digg Effect.
NDesign-Studio.com - According to their graph, their site went down for six hours.
ThemBid.com - This was a minor Digg Effect at 6K unique visitors.
CreativeBits.org - Charts, graphs and recommendations.
CybernetNews.com - An account of getting Dugg four times in ten days.
BloggingExperiment.com - A study of a blog that only went after Digg traffic.
LinuxBrainDump.org - Almost 140K visitors in two days.
FiftyFourEleven.com - Death of a server and the lessons learned.
Blogs.Tech-Recipes.com - A small Digg Effect with WordPress cache saving the day.
HRMPF.com - 15K unique visitors and some stats about the Digg users who visited.
SEOBlackHat.com - The REVERSE Digg Effect.
Do you have a cool Digg Effect story? Let us know in the comments.
3 Responses to “The Power of the Digg Effect”
I recently have been slashdotted and dugg. The Digg Effect was much more powerful by five times. Maybe because the Digg story made it in the overall top 10 list. I protected my server by using coral cache.
By Eli Perez on Dec 19, 2007
@Eli I had the same experience, but the difference was about four times for me. Our WordPress installation handled the Digg Effect with no problems.
By Elmer Thomas on Dec 19, 2007
Nice article, but if you get Dugg a lot, you should have dedicated environment and some load balancing for best availability and uptime.
By LA on Dec 27, 2007